Clark and Allen to headline sports celebrity dinner

Some of Toronto’s most celebrated sports stars have been part of the Milton Sports Celebrity Dinner and Auction.

That trend is set to continue.

Slated to headline the 11th edition of the Chamber of Commerce fundraiser — on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at Rattlesnake Point Golf Club — are Damon Allen and Wendel Clark.

Well known to even the casual football fan, Allen is a four-time Grey Cup champion and one of the most successful quarterbacks in the history of the CFL, sitting among the all-time passers and rushers.

No less popular to Toronto sports enthusiasts, Clark was a hard-nosed captain of the Maple Leafs through the early ‘90s. Often referred to as ‘Captain Crunch’, played a very physical and intense style of play while amassing more than 500 points in the NHL, most of which were collected while in Toronto.

A popular mainstay of the dinner, longtime Argonaut Mike O’Shea — a linebacker turned special teams co-ordinator — returns as a newly-crowned Grey Cup champion, while Mark Hebscher is slated to take over emcee duties.

More sports celebrities will be added in the coming weeks.

Tickets for the event — which go to fund the chamber’s scholarship program — are $175 (plus HST) each, or a table for 10 for $1,600. The dinner includes an autograph session, as well as a live and silent auction.